OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Ericales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Polemonium vanbruntiae   FAMILY Polemoniaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polemonium vanbruntiae   FAMILY Polemoniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Polemonium vanbruntiae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Polemonium van-bruntiae

 

COMMON NAME:
Bog Jacob's-ladder


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image of Polemonium vanbruntiae, Bog Jacob's-ladder

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_pova5_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Polemonium vanbruntiae   FAMILY Polemoniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polemonium vanbruntiae   FAMILY Polemoniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Polemonium vanbruntiae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Polemonium van-bruntiae

 

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1110

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: calcareous fens, swamps, and streambanks, per Weakley's Flora

Native: north of the Carolinas

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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 15-21 leaflets
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Blue-purple
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-lobed campanulate persistent calyx
5-lobed campanulate corolla
5 exserted stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule

 

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